Restart VM On Oracle VM Server Fail Due to Lock (Doc ID 2556996.1)

Last updated on APRIL 08, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle VM - Version 3.4.1 and later
Private Cloud Appliance - Version 2.4.3 to 2.4.3 [Release 2.0]
Linux x86-64

A VM was hanging or running very slowly so it was restarted using VM operating system reboot.

Because the VM don't reboot, a restart was issued using Oracle VM Manager interface. This operation result in a lock as view in AdminServer.log:

[2019-05-29 13:24:50 11261] ERROR (service:97) catch_error: Lock file /var/run/ovs-agent/vm-list.lock failed: timeout occurred.

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